camp

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈkæmp/]

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1. camp (noun) — sense 1

Definition: An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.

Example: Near-synonyms: campness, campiness

2. camp (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.

3. camp (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Ostentatiously flamboyant or effeminate.

Example: More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a homosexual (‘he's very camp’), or for describing rather outre behaviour[…]

4. camp (adj) — sense 4

Definition: Intentionally tasteless or vulgar; self-parodying.

Example: In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way. As John Dean writes: “U.S. rock has a ruling camp queen with Madonna.”

5. camp (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To behave in a camp manner.

Example: Oster and his two co-stars, Jamie MacKenzie and Bill Martel, boogie and bop, sway and swish, camp and croon through tightly worked production numbers addressing a range of serious (and not so serious) issues that middle class, urban gay men come up against.

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